Notable People from Hawaii

Jeremiah Green

American drummer (1977–2022)

Ling-Ai Li

American actor, film producer and author (1908-2003)

Boki

Hawaiian high chief and merchant

Anthony K. Roberts

American photographer

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett

Native Hawaiian suffragist

Keoni Ana

Hawaiian noble (1810-1857)

Gabe Baltazar

American musician (1929–2022)

Keohokālole

Hawaiian chiefess

Keōua Kūʻahuʻula

member of the royal class during the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

Shinyei Nakamine

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1920-1944)

Ronald Takaki

American historian (1939-2009)

Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

United States general

David Kawānanakoa

Patriarch of the House of Kawānanakoa; in line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

Curtis P. Iaukea

Hawaiian and American politician (1855–1940)

Richard E. Cunha

American cinematographer (1922-2005)

Dick Cleveland

American swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist, former world record-holder

Namahana Piia

Hawaiian royal consort

James Kealoha

American politician (1908–1983)

Teresia Teaiwa

Kiribati poet (1968–2017)

Pedro Velasco

Olympic volleyball player (1937–2023)

Hilo Hattie

Native Hawaiian singer, hula dancer, actress and comedian (1901-1979)

Jason Slater

American record producer (1971–2020)

Neal Blaisdell

Mayor of Honolulu from 1955 to 1969 and member of the Hawaii Republican Party

Aukai Collins

American Islamist (1974-2016)

Arthur Lyman

American jazz vibraphone and marimba player group popularized a faux-Polynesian musical style that became known as exotica (1932-2002)

David Malo

Hawaiian historian

Henry A. P. Carter

American businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

George Parsons Lathrop

American novelist and poet

Kwan Hi Lim

American actor (1922-2008)

Joseph Kekuku

Player of the Hawaiian steel guitar

William Paul Jarrett

American sheriff and politician (1877-1929)

Kaʻiana

kamaliʻikane (Prince) of Puna, Kaʻū and the island of Kauaʻi

Henry de Varigny

French physician, naturalist and journalist

Frank Ferera

Hawaiian musician (1885–1951)

Garret T. Sato

American actor (1964-2020)

Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

Hawaiian princess (1882–1945)

Wynee

first Native Hawaiian from the Hawaiian Islands to traveled abroad

Moe Keale

Hawaiian actor and musician (1939-2002)

Toshio Miyamoto

American baseball player (1933-)

George Naʻope

Hula master and Merrie Monarch Festival organizer (1928-2009)

Juliette May Fraser

Hawaiian American artist (1887–1983)

Eddie Kamae

founding member of the Sons of Hawaii and a 'ukulele virtuoso, singer, composer, and film producer

Hoapili

Member of the nobility during the formation of the Kingdom of Hawaii, trusted military and political advisor to King Kamehameha I, Royal Governor of Maui

Kekūanaōʻa

descendent of the high chiefs of the island of Oʻahu, royal Governor of Oʻahu 1839–1864 and the sixth Kuhina Nui

Naukane

Native Hawaiian chief who traveled through North America in the early 19th century

Kuini Liliha

Traditional Hawaiian High Chiefess who served as royal governor of Oʻahu from 1829 to 1831

Fanny Kekelaokalani

Hawaiian royal (1806-1880)

Pākī

Hawaiian high chief (c. 1808–1855)

John Papa Īī

Hawaiian politician

Henry Martyn Whitney

early journalist in the Kingdom of Hawaii (1824–1904)